function (the usual meaning is ‘office, employment’, 2 not pre-S.)
1.
activity, action (of
the faculties)
Mac. I. iii. 140
“ Is smother'd in
surmise,”
Ham. II. ii. 590 [582] “his whole ”
2.
particular kind of
activity or operation, (i) of a physical organ
MND. III. ii. 177
“Dark night, that from
the eye his takes”
; (ii) of intellectual or moral powers
Oth. II. iii. 357
“Even as her appetite
shall play the god With his weak
function.”
